{"id":15133,"date":"2016-06-01T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:17:34","slug":"two-injured-in-plane-crash-at-new-garden-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=15133","title":{"rendered":"Two injured in plane crash at New Garden field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-774\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NewGardenFlyingFieldLogo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"NewGardenFlyingFieldLogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>NEW GARDEN \u2014 Two people were hurt when the vintage aircraft they were taking off in suddenly lost power, as they tried to return to the field and clipped a hanger in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The two individuals \u2014 aged 68 and 70 \u2014 were said to have suffered non-life threatening injuries and were transported to Christiana Hospital for treatment. Their names were not released as authorities sought to contact relatives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plane, a 1940s Aeronica Champion, a two-seat general aviation craft very popular in the post World War II era and has been in production on and off ever since \u2014 took off northbound from the field&#8217;s runway. Almost immediately the plane lost power and the pilot attempted to return to the field. While turning, the plane struck the east side of a hanger, crashing through the side of the building, where the craft came to rest. Township police said that no one was in the building at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW GARDEN \u2014 Two people were hurt when the vintage aircraft they were taking off in suddenly lost power, as they tried to return to the field and clipped a hanger in the process. The two individuals \u2014 aged 68 and 70 \u2014 were said to have suffered non-life threatening injuries and were transported to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7475,7474,6269,908],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aeronica-champion","tag-airplane-crash","tag-featured","tag-new-garden-flying-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15136,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions\/15136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}